Samba Guest Account

[Robert Dahlem]

Jim,

On Sat, 19 Dec 1998 08:03:15 +1100, Crilly, Jim wrote:

>I was trying to add an acct called "administrator" to samba which has an 
>enabled,good linux acct. I never did get that acct working for some unknown 
>reason, [...]

You cannot have something like a unix account named "administrator": user names 
are limited to 8 characters. You will have to map this account to something unix 
understands, i.e. admin or smbadmin.

>but what happened as a result of my playing is that smbclient -L PGH0710(my samba 
>server) fails with an invalid/passwd combo. I never touched the nobody acct, so 
>I'm lost as to why this started failing.

>In my smb user map I have nobody = guest pcguest smbguest (again I did not
>edit this ), I believe that doesn't matter though because I disabled the
>user map and the same thing happened.

Try to make sure which user is used from smbclient by using option -U

Then investigate, why this user cannot connect:

If you have "encrypted passwords = no", try "su - myuser" (myuser replaced by the 
name you supplied with -U) and then "id". You should be logged in as that user.

If you have "encrypted passwords = yes", inspect your smbpasswd file.

Hasta la vista,
               Robert

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